Sangsoo Kim earned his B.M. in Piano Performance at Seoul National University in South Korea and his M.M. and Performance Diploma in Piano Performance from Indiana University under Emile Naoumoff, where he worked as an Associate Instructor. He is currently a Doctoral candidate at The University of North Texas with Dr. Pamela Mia Paul, where he has worked as a Teaching Fellow. He serves as a piano instructor at Dallas ISD and staff accompanist at the Lewisville Lake Symphony International Competition. He has been recognized as a 1st prize winner at the Petroff Piano Competition, Texoma Piano Competition, and winner of 13th Texas State International Piano Festival Concerto Competition. He has performed Prokofiev Concerto No. 3 with the Central Texas Philharmonic.